ANTIQUE COLLECTION OF SHAKESPEARE MINI LEATHER BOOKS

This collection of 40 William Shakespeare mini leather books measuring 5”HX 4”W has been in our family for years and were purchased new. Each book was printed in London by the J.M. Dent & Sons LD of ‘Aldine House WC MCMX. Originally this collection was owned by our Aunt Madeline who collected them when printed in the early 1900’s. She cherished her books until her death in 1977. Her sister, Irene, continued to hold and protect these little minis until her death in 2009. Now we are ready to send them where they will be cherished as the sisters did. During our research of the little mini’s we found the article listed below. J.M. Dent & Sons, book publishers of London, England, was founded in 1888 by Joseph Malaby Dent (1859-1926). The company achieved success by selling cheap editions of the classics to the working class. Dent's first major production, the Temple Shakespeare series, was established in 1894, followed in 1906 by Everyman's Library, a series of 1000 volumes… Collection Number: 11043
Collection Title: J.M. Dent & Sons Records, 1834-1986 This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection includes the following books: · All’s Well That Ends Well · Antony & Cleopatra · As You Like It · The Comedy of Errors · Coriolanus · Cymbeline · Hamlet · Julius Caesar · Love’s Labour’s Lost · MacBeth · Measure For Measure · The Merchant of Venice · The Merry Wives of Windsor · A Midsummer Night’s Dream · Much Ado About Nothing · Othello · Pericles · Romeo and Juliet · The Rape of Lucrece · The Sonnets · The Taming Of The Shrew · The Tempest · Timon Of Athens · Titus Andronicus · Troilus and Cressida · Twelfth Night · Two Gentlemen of Verona · Venus & Adonis · A Winter’s Tale · King Henry IV Part I · King Henry IV Part II · King Henry V · King Henry VI Part I · King Henry VI Part II · King Henry VI Part III · King Henry VIII · King John · King Lear · King Richard II · King Richard III Should you have any question or desire more photographs about these wonderfully preserved mini’s please feel free to contact me. Responses will be handled promptly but the items being sold “as is”... read more